Health & Happiness

Diabetes

The number of people with diabetes continues to rise while their age when diagnosed drops. Type 2 diabetes, which used to be called adult - onset diabetes, is now affecting children, due largely to the obesity epidemic.

Identification of Diabetes

Having diabetes demands close monitoring of ones blood sugar reading. Besides keeping an eye out for high blood sugar, they also have to be knowledgeable of warning signs of low blood sugar or hypoglycaemia. Using a blood glucose meter, a sufferer of diabetes can tell if his/her sugar level is less than normal. Normal fasting blood sugar is 70 to 100 mg/dl.

Some causes of Diabetes

Emotionally-stressed mothers who may have other psychological problems may result in an increased risk of their children having diabetes. Mothers who experienced a stressful event such as divorce, violence in their home, and mental tension and work pressure are more likely to develop diabetes.

Exercise, sleep and body temperature

If you want to instantly increase the quality of your sleep, then start an exercise program if you are in need of some exercise. Exercise encourages your body to sleep naturally in several ways and to say nothing of all the other health benefits!

Benefits of Exercise for better Quality Sleep

Exercise will increase the rhythm of your body temperature, and make your body temperature peak at a higher level. This will raise your energy levels during the day and you'll feel fresher, alive, and encouraged.

As the levels of your body temperature will max out at a higher level, your body temperature will also drop more easily and deeper. This is what your body needs for relaxing sleep, over a good length of time.

A regular work-out will tend to counter your body temperature rhythm's natural tendency to flat-line, which will allow you to sleep deeply even if the day has been particularly stressful, or you missed your work-out for that day.

Female hair loss

Hair loss is part of our daily lives, whether you like it or not, and generally becomes more of a problem as people grow older, but can also affect young people. The loss of hair usually happens gradually and some research has indicated that it takes 5 years or more for follicle roots to fully cease.

For many patients, the loss of some or all of their hair is something that takes some getting used to and is often the case after major surgery, so patients should discuss with their surgeon about this possible side effect before undergoing surgery.

Children suffering from leukaemia may well suffer some amount of, or total loss of, hair. In male- and female-pattern baldness, the culprit is something called dihydrotestosterone, or DHT, which is derived from androgen, a male hormone.

Women

Generally women suffer from their hair becoming thinner as they get older and the women's hair loss pattern is different to the embarrassing monk-like crown and the vanishing hairline that is often found in men. Women develop hair loss as frequently as men do, but because of hormonal differences between men and women, women typically lose their hair in a more diffuse way than men.